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Pale Vegetarians: Iron Deficiency Diets

If you don’t eat meat, your complexion is pale or pasty, or if you simply lack energy, it could be because you’re not getting enough iron in your diet. Many people assume that a vegetarian diet is a healthier way of eating, but this may not be the case if...

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Red Grapefruit

If you are adventurous in trying new tastes, you may have come across a glorious sun-coloured juice made from new grapefruit varieties. The new varieties are sweet and the flesh and juice is red in colour. Note: The red grapefruit juice drink although bottled in...

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Sour Cream Pancakes with Blueberry Syrup

Kids love Geoff Jansz’s summer dessert, which can also become a treat for the health conscious by using light sour cream in the recipe. Sour Cream Pancake Ingredients: 1 carton of sour cream (light is fine) 3 eggs, separated 1 cup milk (whole cream or light) 1...

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Spiced Apple Juice – The French Alternative

Medieval times were filled with wine, women and song, and spiced apple juice was a popular beverage at midwinter feasts held at the very best medieval banqueting halls. The original recipe for this warming drink called for a basket of slightly mouldy medieval apples,...

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Stuffed Vine Leaves: The French Alternative

Stuffed Vine Leaves: The French Alternative Stuffed vine leaves (grape vine) are a delicious snack or entree dish. Used fresh from your own grapevine, the leaves can be a little difficult to manage. On ‘Burke’s Backyard’ Jackie French demonstrated...

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Substitute Ice-cream

Ice-cream is a popular dessert and nothing can compete with the taste of real ice-cream. But real ice-cream can present a problem for people who have to avoid dairy fat, who have an intolerance to lactose (the sugar in milk), or those trying to watch their weight. On...

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Fabulous Food

Geoff Jansz enjoys visiting quality produce stores that have a wide range of foods from Australia and imported specialities from all around the world. He is keen to encourage other shoppers to feel confident enough to explore their local suppliers of fine ingredients....

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Sweet and Sour Pork

Geoff Jansz makes a contemporary and healthy version of the Chinese restaurant favourite, Sweet and Sour Pork. Geoff’s recipe combines fresh vegetables and lean meat for a great tasting and healthy, low fat dish with a 1990s look. Ingredients: 1 tin unsweetened...

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Green China Tea: The French Alternative

  Green China Tea: The French Alternative For a quick-pick-me-up, most people would reach for a traditional cup of tea, with milk and sugar. But what if you could enjoy a great tasting tea that was good for you, and have the pleasure of growing the tea yourself?...

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Vanilla

The world’s most popular dessert flavour is vanilla but most people only know the flavour of vanilla essence or even imitation vanilla. For the flavour of pure vanilla use the vanilla bean or its extract in place of vanilla essence. Recently on...

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